Tag Archives | open letter

It’s okay… It’s okay to not have it all figured out yet – you probably never will. It’s okay if you don’t want a home birth, water birth, or natural delivery without an epidural. And it’s okay if you do. Though just to let you know, if you feel pressured to go to extremes in […]

Dear Advertisers, It’s me: a modern mom. You know, the one that you are trying to reach in your efforts because you know something about me. You’ve done your research, and you know that I have a lot of influence over my family’s consumer habits. I make a lot of the purchasing decisions in my household, […]

Teachers are amazing, teachers are underpaid and a lot of teachers do not often get to hear the positive, the encouragement and the thanks from parents. In fact, often, I am sure it feels like they only hear the complaints, the requests, the annoyances and the micromanaging. When I first sent my daughter to kindergarten […]

Recently, there have been a lot of Elf on the Shelf posts around the internet. (We are no exception here at CMB.) These posts typically fall into two categories: Calendars and ideas about how to pose your elf this holiday season. I would even put the posts that spoof this concept into this category. Hatred […]